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How cool would it be if instead of all the stupid nonsense they always do at shows like the VMAs, they instead performed a compilation like this live? I would love to see all these pop stars perform at once.

The fact that is sounds like they all sound the same, just goes to show how well this was put together. Considering a lot of the songs obviously took a lot of engineering to make them work. With different keys, BPM, styles, etc.

That being said, I feel really old. I only recognized maybe 3-4 of these.

lol no, electrohouse already happened. That was 2011-2012, largely thanks to Calvin Harris and Rihanna ("We Found Love", September 2011). Some artists were slow to jump on that (cough Lady Gaga, Britney) and just recently released electrohouse albums, but 2014 pop is going to be all trap/hip-hop. That's where pop is moving now, largely thanks to Mike WiLL Made It. I mean, even Katy Perry has a trap song ("Dark Horse")...

Alternative has also become quite a force in the top 40 world. The fact that bands like Of Monsters and Men, Imagine Dragons, Awolnation and fun. are being played on pop stations is evidence of this.

And then you have the wave of "indie" pop songs that have smashed the charts like Somebody That I Used to Know, Pumped Up Kicks, Sweater Weather, Ho Hey, Let Her Go and Royals.

I honestly think Adele was the main force that led to the switch from the dance pop dominated 2009-2011 to the more stripped down music we hear on pop radio today. Of course there is still successful dance music, but it doesn't dominate everything else on top 40 radio like it did three years ago.

To add onto your point, indie's popularity has contributed to the surge of what I like to call the "indie" pop genre (with quotes, as opposed to regular indie). I would group Imagine Dragons and fun. (and many others) into this genre.

I mean, Imagine Dragons' album was produced by Alex da Kid. He's not an indie producer. He made his name making derivative, radio-candy rap songs like "Love the Way You Lie," "Coming Home," "I Need a Doctor," and "Airplanes."

And fun.'s album was produced by Jeff Bhasker, responsible for "Run This Town" and "Girl On Fire." He produced the similarly "indie" albums of Lana Del Rey and Natalia Kills.

So, yeah, mainstream pop producers are also making "indie"/alternative into a thing. As with all pop, some of it is great, much of it is not.

Not to be nitpicky, but we found love was progressive house, stuff like animals and hey now is electro-house while wake me up and zedd's stuff is more progressive house. There it a tendency of these genres to blend regardless.

The genre names have been so fucked from commercialization. Almost every song you hear on the radio such as Calvin Harris and is described as progressive house is just electro house noises (shit even electro house used to be good at one point).

If you look closely at the house music trends on the radio, it all started when Deadmau5 released a ton of progressive house songs and those became popular with the introduction of mainstream electro house to the US market.

Everyone started calling 128 BPM music progressive or electro, the same way some people call any electronic music beat techno. Then again there's no proof of my previous paragraph, unless researched (to prove or disprove), just from experience and following music.

On sites like beatport you will always see all the pop songs that are in top 40 under progressive house because really, there is no genre to put it under and of course, it already grabbed its high number of consumers.

To be fair, both 2011 and 2012 were great years for pop music and electronic music. Lots of variety, and while a lot of it is trash, like all genres of all time periods, there were many stand-outs, both mainstream and otherwise.

2013 was pretty decent, but I would argue while it was good as far as dance music goes, everything else was just okay, aside from the occasional one I personally enjoyed, like Justin Timberlake, Demi Lovato, etc.

It's probably a mix of coincidence and the fact that it's a very logical time to make a mix (given that most pop songs have a very similar length, and 5:40 makes for a very fitting combination of them).

this guy's 2012 video (which i liked more than this one) has 43 million views on youtube, while earworm's has 8 million (though i liked it also). just saying that i don't think it should be a surprise haha

What I like about his is that he tries to make a song. It has a chorus. The Danthology ones are just as many clips of songs put together as possible. Yes, it's done well, but it's not a song, it's a revue.

I think there's something interesting about the plethora of comments that correlate their age with less knowledge to these songs. I'm marked as another, I'm in my upper 20s and would say I knew just more than half of these songs, but I feel if something like this were created for 2003, I would know every song easily. I suppose a few examplanations are that when we grow older, we've found our niche and the music that defines us or that we're not as susceptible to music marketing, or maybe we actually have refined our taste in music and mainstream pop is an introduction for all the variety out there in the sounds we come to attach to.

Just a curious thing I think. And then peer further and see how many of these songs are known by your oldest relative. I would guess that there is a strong negative correlation throughout our lives between age and knowledge of pop songs.

Yeah, I tend to think of pop music as "music for kids" and "music for people who aren't interested in music". It is mostly derivative watered down stuff which is designed just to be catchy and have you singing along after the first listen. So for anyone who is very passionate about music, they are likely to start to want more depth and variation. I mean 90% of the stuff on the radio these days is based around that same standard electro house beat for a start so that gets pretty old...
I guess as people grow they start exploring other areas in music like you say. Younger kids probably haven't been exposed to other stuff they can connect with, or don't take music all that seriously (yet), and haven't seen through the whole facade that is the pop industry

Has American pop music been very insular recently? I'm a Brit and recognised very few of those songs outside of the ones which were global trends (Psy, Lorde, Ylvis). Usually American songs are prominent over here, and what you find popular is also successful here. Previously I would have know almost every song but this year I recognise only a few... of course it's possible I'm just losing touch with pop music. However, I feel it's not just that I don't recognise many of the songs it's also seems like you're pop music has gone in a completely different direction, was every song a dance track this year? What's with the country music influences?

I wonder if the changing ways people access music is reducing American cultural influence, as individual music taste is more governed by immediate surroundings than dictated by the (American) music industry.